Telephone call-list and memorandum-slip attachment.



No. 823,299; PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

- A. L. SMITH. TELEPHONE CALL LIST AND MEMORANDUM SLIP ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.30. 1904 transverse section taken mentary view similar to Fig. 1, s

' '1 ustration.

side elevation UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- ANTOINETTE Louisa SMITH, or NORWOOD. onlo.

TELEPHONE CALL- LIST AND MEMORANDUM-SLIP ATTACHMENT. ,No.s2e,2es.'

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906. Application filed'December 30,1904. Serial No. 239.038. i

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTOINETTE LOUISE SMITH, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of N orwood, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and'useful Improvements in Telephone Call-Lists and Memorandum-Slip Attachments, of which the following is a illustrating in plan the modified arran ement of the attachment shown in Fig. 4. l' ig. 6 is a sectional detail view showing the spring retracted roller of the device.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 1 indi cates the stem or pedestalof the desk-telephone to which my improved attachment is applied for ;use, and 2 indicates a reduced portion or neck commonly resent on said stem or pedestal, while 3 mdicates a forked clamp, the arms of which are adapted to embrace and bear at opposite sides of said neck portion 2 and are perforated for the passage. of a bolt or,screw 4, by means ofwhich the clamp may be securely attached to the pedestal. 5 indicates as a whole the bodlyl specification.

(1 adapted for use in connection Wit desk-telephones for affording convenient means for ma g memoranda of subscribers call-numbers, conversations, &c. and the object of the invention is to provide a device or attachment of this eneral character of a simple, compact, and inexpensive nature and of a durable and strong construction,h

parallel opposite s1de walls 6 6, connecte across the top whic desired, preserved within the casing of the attachment so as to be at hand for reference at all times.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction laterally-arranged rounded chambers 7 and 8, chamber 7 b rear wall of the casing, afforded with pedestal 1 and chamber 8 being of less dimensions and bein extended in front of the said chamber 7 an along the front wall of the casing. Each side wall 6 of th points in line with the where attachment is centers 'of the. res ecvement for use tive chambers 7 and 8 outwardly-presse or vices heretofore employed all as will be hereswaged sockets or bearings 9 9, n which are inafter fully set forth. adapted to be received shafts 10 10, which l The novel features of theinvention will be are extended axially of said chambers and carefull defined in the claims. transversely across the casing and which t e accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure l is a s1 e elevation showing an attachment em- 0.

carry rollersor spools 12.12, whereon are held rolls 13 and 14 of paper or other fabric, the roll 13 being, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, held on shaft 12 in chamber 7, while the roll 14 is held on shaft12 in the forward the casing. The clamping devlce by means I of which the improved attachment is held to showmg my improved attachment in p the telephone pedestal 1 is constructed with portions of the casing being broken out alongan elongated and horizontally-disposed cross one side to illustrate the arrangement of the bar or yoke 15', the opposite ends or arms of contained mechanism. Fig. 3 is a fragwhich are extended at opposite sides of the but drawn to pedestal v1 and carry means for detachable engagement with the casing or body portion of the attachment, body portion is detachably held upon the cross-bar and is thereby connected with the pedestal 1 in such a way as to be supported thereon in position for convenient use at all times. The extremities 16 of said ary esk-telephone. Fig. 2 is a through the neck portion of the pedestal of the instrument and ll of its casing broken out for purposes of Fig. 4 is a fragmentary broken showing a modified form of the Improved attachmen Fig. 5 is a sectional p an view somewhat similar to Fig. 2, but

in position eing adjacent to the" the clamp upon the telephone e casing has at.

whereby said casing or,

chamber 8 of it venient use.

oppositely-arranged arms of the cross-bar the cross-bar to be engaged upon the upper surface of said cross-bar, as seen in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, in such a Way as to securely support the body portion or casing in position for use and upon the cross-bar of the clamping device. This construction is also such that the casing or body portion of the attachment may be conveniently removed from the telephone-pedestal by raising in dotted lines at a in Fig. 3, so that the flanges 17 are disengaged from their sockets, whereby it will be apparent that the casing may be removed from the pedestal without changing or affecting in any way the adjustment of the clamping device and may be as conveniently reapplied .in position for use.

In this way the rolls 13 and 14 may be read-' ily replaced and adjusted when exhausted.

- 19 indicates a transversely-extended slotted o ening produced in the rear part of the top p ate 21 of the casing, and through said opening the web of paper from roll 13 in c amber 7 is led, as indicated at a; in Fig. 3, being thereafter extended down over the top surface of the top plate 21, as indicated at :20, whereby it will be apparent that said fiat top surface forms a convenient rest or support for holding the paper while notes or memoranda are being made and over which the paper is always extended in; position for con Along the forward edge of the top plate 21 of the casing is extended a transverselyarranged guide-strip 22, and along the rear part of said top late is extended a similar guide-strip 20, an by means of these strips it is evident that the web of paper m will'be held down in proper position as it travels over said flat to plate, so that the pa per may not become eranged at any time, and the forward guide-strip 22 forms a straight edge over which the paper may be torn off, as indicated at at on the drawings, so that after memoranda or. notes have been taken they may be removed from the attachment and lacedelsewhere for use or preservation. he forward wall of the casing is rounded and forms the front wall of the cham her 8, wherein the paper or other roll 14 is held on roller 12, and said roller 12 in said chamber 8 may be and preferably will be a spring-retracted roller, as seen in Fi 6,'for

which-purpose one of its pintles will e flats tened, as indicated at 1 1 on Fig. 4, so that one, end of the actuating-spring may be aflixed it, as indicated sidera amp e,

' to said flattened pintle 11 and be thereby held to the casing, while the opposite end of said spring is moved in unison with the roller 12, so that the spring may be placed under tension when the strip 24, wound thereon, 1S

drawn from the casing, as will be hereinafterroller when said strip 24 is released, so that the strip 24 will be automatically drawn back into the chamber 8 and wound on the roller therein to preserve such memoranda or notes as may be upon the strip within said chamber 8 of the casing, so that the memoranda or notes will be in position for convenient reference at all times. The strip 24, wound on roller 12 in chamber 8,is adapted to be withdrawn from said chamber through a slotted opening 23, produced in the front wall ofthe casin and said strip has at its end a handle or en argement which is indicated at 25 and which may convenientl be given the form illustrated in Fig. 5, having a central projecting portion adapted to be grasped between the thumb and finger for the withdrawal of the strip from its chamber and having ends which project laterally beyond opposite edges of the strip for engagement on the front wall of the casing at opposite ends of the slotted opening 23 to prevent the end of the strip from being altogether drawn within the chamber 8 of the casing. By this construction there is provided an attachment comprising a casing wherein is carried a spring-retracted aper or other roll by means of which may e preserved at the telephone such anemoranda or notes of subscri ers call numbers, &c., as may be desiredfor fre uent use at the telephone, and in addition tie casing contains another paper-roll, which is carried over a writing surface or support at the topof the casing and is in convenient position to be written upon and from which memoranda or notes may be conveniently separated when desired. In addition the casing is removable from the means whereby it 1s supported upon the pedestal of the instrument to ermit of conveniently replacing the rolls wl ienever desired. 1

From the above description of m improvements it will be apparent that the evice constructed according'to my invention is of .an extreinel simple and inexpensive nature and is especia ly well adapted or 'use by reason of its compact construction and convenience of use, an it. will also be obvious from the above description that the device is capable of con- 1e modification without materialrdearture from the principles and s irit of the invention,- and for: this reason I 0 not wish to be understood aslimiting in self to the precise. form and arrangement 0 the several parts of the deviceas herein set forth in carryin out my invention in practice. Fore):-

if desired, the construction shown. in

Figs. 4 and 5 may be employed. In this construction the rearmost chamber 7 of the easwhen a plied to ing is ,omitted and the casing is made cylindrical in form, as shown at 26, and has re movable end caps 27 and 28, which may be provided with beads 29 or other equivalent fastening means for holding them in position the open ends of the casing 26. ithin said end caps 27 and 28 are held bearing disks or arts 30, in which the rounded and flattened pintles 10 and 11 of the spring-roller are adapted to be received,

said disks or parts 30 having rounded faces adjacent to their peripheries so that any lateral play of the strip or sheet 24 which may occur Will not resultm mutilation of the edges of said strip or sheet.

v Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to ent, is-

1. In a device of the character described,

secure by Letters Patthe combination of a clamping device for attachment to the pedestal of a desk-telephone or the like, a casing or body portion having means for detachable connection with said clamping device and having a fiat top plate provided'with an opening and havin rounded chambers at its lowerpart one of W 'ch has an opening through the wall of the casing,

rollers iournaled in the chambers of the easing and strips of fabric held on the rollers, the strip from one roller being extended through the opening in the top of the, casing and being carried over the flat top plate thereof and the other roller being spring-actuated and having its strip passed through the opening in the casing-Wall which communicates with the corresponding chamber and provided with a handle outside said casing.

13, In a device of the character described, the combination of a clamping device having arms to engage the neck of a desk-telephone pedestal and having a cross-bar the ends of which are extended at opposite sides of said pedestal and are provided With bent=over or folded extremities and easinghavmsr flanges at opposite sides engaged in said bent-over or folded extremities and provided with projections engaged upon the cross-bar for detachable connection of the casing with said crossbar. I

Signed at Oincinnati OhiO, this 19th day of December, 1904.

ANTOINETTE LOUISE snnn 

